And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
 

12:2 when I called you. Jephthah’s reply indicates that, perhaps even before he had been called to fight the Ammonites, the elders of Gilead had indeed requested help from their sister tribe of Ephraim, and had been either refused or ignored.

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